Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / July 2008

I'm trying to connect a Flash interface with a web service over the company
intranet, and so far having no luck at all. While I have a pretty good Flash
background, my experience with other web technologies is pretty limited. The
web service, which spits back XML, has been put together by a web developer who
doesn't have a lot of experience with Flash. I'm using a web service object to
connect, and the URL he has given me to connect to looks like this:


http://usdev.somedomain.com/PrintWebService/printwebservice.asmx?op=FindAllOffic
esXML

As I understand it,
"http://usdev.somedomain.com/PrintWebService/printwebservice.asmx" is the web
service itself and "FindAllOfficesXML" is the web service method.

But that URL doesn't make sense in the context of my code:

import mx.services.WebService;
import mx.services.PendingCall;

connectto_ws();

function connectto_ws() {
datapath =
"http://usdev.somedomain.com/PrintWebService/printwebservice.asmx?op=FindAllOffi
cesXML";
printwebservice = new WebService(datapath);
pendingcall = printwebservice.FindAllOfficesXML();
pendingcall.onResult = function(result) {
_root.resultstring.text = result;
};
pendingcall.onFault = function(fault) {
_root.resultstring.text = fault.faultstring;
};
}

I'm setting the web service URL to the specific method, FindAllOfficesXML, of
the web service, and then I'm defining pendingcall as a method of that same
method!

Changing the URL to more closely resemble examples I see online doesn't work
either:

http://usdev.somedomain.com/PrintWebService/printwebservice.asmx?wsdl

I have a feeling the solution is pretty simple, but I'm not seeing it.

import mx.services.WebService;
import mx.services.PendingCall;

connectto_ws();

function connectto_ws() {
datapath =
"http://usdev.somedomain.com/PrintWebService/printwebservice.asmx?op=FindAllOffi
cesXML";
printwebservice = new WebService(datapath);
pendingcall = printwebservice.FindAllOfficesXML();
pendingcall.onResult = function(result) {
_root.resultstring.text = result;
};
pendingcall.onFault = function(fault) {
_root.resultstring.text = fault.faultstring;
};
}